CFI Renewal - FIRC suggestions?
08-17-2009 | 02:11 PM
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CFI Renewal - FIRC suggestions?
It's about time to renew my CFI privileges. I haven't done enough instructing for an activity-based renewal this year, so I'll probably opt to take a refresher course. I'm considering:
American Flyers online course. It's cheap, but that's about all I know about it.
AOPA online course. About the same price as AF, but I don't think you get "lifetime renewal" with it.
Also considering attending a Hoffman Pilot Center live course. If anybody knows anything about this or has attended, I'd appreciate some feedback. I'd kind of like to get something more out of it than just "checking the boxes," and I think I'd get more out of a good live course.
Any other ideas?
American Flyers online course. It's cheap, but that's about all I know about it.
AOPA online course. About the same price as AF, but I don't think you get "lifetime renewal" with it.
Also considering attending a Hoffman Pilot Center live course. If anybody knows anything about this or has attended, I'd appreciate some feedback. I'd kind of like to get something more out of it than just "checking the boxes," and I think I'd get more out of a good live course.
Any other ideas?
08-17-2009 | 03:52 PM
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The online courses are mostly check-the-boxes, but you can get them done on the road instead of on your days off. If you want something enjoyable do a weekend classroom FIRC. AF does these at their branches, and I think AOPA does a road show. Other than wasting a weekend they can fun if the instructor is good, plus you get to meet some people.
08-17-2009 | 07:14 PM
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That's what I was thinking. This Hoffman Pilot Center course looks interesting, and the instructors seem well credentialed. And it's being held right down the street from my house.
08-19-2009 | 05:09 PM
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American Flyers, I did the "studying" over several days, several hits of the "refresh" button to keep the timer going, and finished it on the road. Print off the cert, call the FSDO, set an appointment and you're in/out in 15 minutes
Honestly I don't know if I could sit through a weekend FIRC without going crazy, but I haven't done one either so I'm just being judgemental and lazy by doing AF's course.
Honestly I don't know if I could sit through a weekend FIRC without going crazy, but I haven't done one either so I'm just being judgemental and lazy by doing AF's course.
08-19-2009 | 05:17 PM
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American Flyers, I did the "studying" over several days, several hits of the "refresh" button to keep the timer going, and finished it on the road. Print off the cert, call the FSDO, set an appointment and you're in/out in 15 minutes
Honestly I don't know if I could sit through a weekend FIRC without going crazy, but I haven't done one either so I'm just being judgemental and lazy by doing AF's course.
Honestly I don't know if I could sit through a weekend FIRC without going crazy, but I haven't done one either so I'm just being judgemental and lazy by doing AF's course.
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